2 CAfcKUfl COUNTYI'KESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Tliurstlay. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er ye*r tl no 112 paid In advance 1 u8 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of •ne dol.ar per square foronc insertion ami llfty cents i er square fur eacli subsequent Insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three months •re low and uniform, and will be furnished oo application. Legal and Official Advertising per squaro, three times or loss. t2: each subsequent, inser tion !0 cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line fur one lnser •ertlon; 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per ilue. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, »5 per year; over five lines, at the regular rales of adver tising. No local inserted for lesa than 75 cents per •asue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHISSR Is complete •tid affords facilities for doing the best class of Work. PAKUCCLAH ATTENTION PAID TO LAW 4* HINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except p.t the option of the pub lisher. .Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor In advance. Prosperity has prevailed so generally •throughout the country during the lasi The Melodeon feW ycaTS that some of the social philoa "nil the Pinna. , ophers have meas lired and stated It In terms of pianos. The measure was not a bad one. The num fcer of pianos bought by people who, years ago, would not have thought ol owning one, and ten years ago were not able to pay for one, has been a pretty good index of satisfactory business con ditions. At the same time, it was pleas ant to know that prosperity was con tributing so promptly to the happiness of the whole family. Yet In this, as in many other affairs, there has been a loss as well as a gain. The piano has come, but an old and valued friend, the iLelo deon or parlor organ, has gone; and there are those who think that it came just a little nearer to the family life, and is a little dearer to the memory of those who have gone out into the world, than its more pretentious successor can ever be. The parlor organ, observes Youth's Companion, belonged to a sim pler age than this —the pre-bicycle, pre telephone, pre-rural delivery age. It was a good, honest instrument, fine enough, as its name indicated, to putin the par tor, yet inexpensive enough for a man of small means to buy without any severe strain. Once bought, what a change it made in the family life! It became in stantly the heart and center of it. The neighbors began to come In more fre quently, and together, for a "sing." The boys stayed at home oftener, and did their part toward making the "sing" a success. The quality of music which this humble instrument produced may be technically inferior to that which the piano produces, but it was not spiritually or emotionally Inferior—rather the con trary. One could execute upon it the liveliest jig or the merriest college song, yet its especial field was the music of the old-fashioned hymns, the sweet old-time ballads and simple songs which touch the heart because they are true to life. It Is music of this sort which they recall who listen for the notes of the old melodeon and the voices of those who gathered about it; and for them the pi ano is no substitute. During the past few years many of the old abandoned farms of New Eng land have been taken up by "city farm ers" and made into splendid country homes. While some of the purchasers were not practical farmers, they had the capital to convert them into pleas ant summer residences. They have en gaged practical men to rejuvenate these old worn-out hills, and under modern methods the land Is being brought into a profitable state of cultivation. Live stock will do it quicker than anything else, and though the land does not ad mit of extensive prazing. in a small way raising stock in the cast can be niade a satisfactory business. War has its episodes no less romantic than those of peace, as a sentimental Milton might have said. One of them is disclosed in the search of a Cuban sol dier for the American nurse who car?d for him in the hospital at Santiago. She would not give her name to him, but told him that he would hear from her after the war. He has been waiting for word from her, and is new in this country, searching, with nothing to aid liirn save her photograph and the knowl edge that her family objected to her service as an army nurse. Rockefeller, unlike some millionaires, does not forget his boyhood friends. He has come to the rescue of an old chum whose little farm on an island In the Missouri was about to be lost through debt. The oil magnate generously sent a sufficient sum to cancel the obligation, which might have cost him as much as , $250. Wonder if there will he another 112 advance in oil? If two or three per cent, of the vast extent of arid lands of the United States are ultimately reclaimed and put under cultivation, it will mean a popula tion in the western half of the United States almost as great as that now in the eastern half of the country. They don't play the ponies in Tilla mook, Ore. Instead they bet on the ar rival of the mails. Down there they say there are three things no one can foretell —ihe result of a footrace, the verdict of a petit jury and the time the mail will ar rive. THE PRECOCIOUS KID. LEAP YPtn ADVEXTIIIE S OK AI.XTV DEMOCRACY. Mnrt eafiafrj Jnurna / Willie Hearst—All About the Horrible Murder!— Will You Be Mine Auntie? Aunty Democracy—You're a Nice By, Willie. When You Grow Up, Coma Again. LET US NOT FORGET. The l.iick of IliiMfneKM Sonne In (lie Dominant Klement of the Democracy. Senator Piatt, of New York, is univers ally conceded to be one of the shrewdest of political managers, but it is not so generally known that he has had a lopg and successful career as a business man. His experience in this line, says the In dianapolis Journal, qualifies him to dis cuss politics from a business point of view. He is a statesman of the practical, or, if you please, of the commercial school. In his speech at a complimentary din ner lately given him in Washington the New York senator emphasized the in ability cf the democratic part}' to rise above its environments in the adminis tration of the government. He pointed out that, as the dominant element of the party is lacking in good business sense and controlled by vagaries, its admin istration of public affairs will Inevitably partake of those characteristics. A democratic president may not himself be a dangerous man, but, said Senator Piatt., "he must yield to the spirit of his party and be its Instrument, or he must break with his party and be the rock on which it splits and goes to pieces." The following is worth quoting: "The history of Mr. Cleveland i9a perfect Illustration of my point. lie was mailt the democratic candidate for his availability, but as soon as the entire- government be came democratic. In his second term, it was straightway discovered thai betweena conservative president and a radical party there WJLS no possibility of successful gov ernment. As the president became more conservative the party became more rad ical, and the effect of their struggles for control was felt in the profits of every busi ness and in the earnings of every work lngrnan." When Senator Piatt says that the struggle between the conservative and the radical elements of the democratic party affected the profits of every busi ness man and the earnings of every workingman he knows whereof he speaks, for he is a business man himself. The American people must have very short memories if they have forgotten what a disastrous plight the country was in at the end of Mr. Cleveland's second administration and how quickly it ral lied when the party of prosperity and progress came in again. In the light of experience and in view of the contrasting records of the two great political parties in their admin istration of the government, Senator Piatt thinks "we shall need throughout the coming campaign to keep constantly before the people the often-proved in capacity of the democratic party to con duct public affairs and the menace to business which proceeds from its very constitution." The suggestion is time ly. lest we forget that the democratic leopard has not changed its spots and that the party is still as incapable of giving the country a successful and prog ressive business administration asitever was in the days of its past professions and promises. IT?" Most democrats are as much afraid of Tammany as they are of 1G to one.—Chicago Chronicle (Dem.). E?"'From now on let the democratic battle cry be 'Up and at them,' " says the Sentinel. This foreshadows unrelenting war against the Bryanites.—lndianapo lis Journal. II. Hill has at last succeeded in striking a keynote. All that the dem ocratic party lackc, he says, is live is sues, wise counsels, conservative candi dates, unity of action, and about a mil lion more votes.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. democrats think there will be an advantage in holding their na tional convention ahead of the repub licans. The unfortunate thing for them is that they can't have an election at a different time.—Philadelphia Press. C-T'A democratic harmony dinner with Cleveland, Parkc-r and other harinoniz ers absent and Dave Hill as theprincipal speaker and expositor of party doc trines; also with ail allusions to Bryan carefully excluded! If that is the sort of harmony which is expected to g«t places and spoils, the democratic party • is probably laboring under another valp delusion.—Troy Times. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, [904. AN "ISSUE" FROM BRYAN. More Flapdoodle Oratory from «li< Ureal Ulohe-Trotter of KcbraaUa. At a banquet in New Haven, Conn, which was declared to be a "prelude tc the opening of the presidential cam paign in New England," William Jen nings Bryan gave an "issue" for the coming national contest. He said: The* great issue at this time is the lssu( between man and mammon, between plu tocracy and democracy. All surface ques tions of taxation, regulation aiid of finunci art. but phrases of that century-long, thai world-wide struggle between the commou people and organized wealth." As a piece of rhetoric and as an exhib it of political forensics this is lofty and high sounding. It is Bryanesque, says the Chicago Kecord-Herald. It is true that the issue between man and mam mon is ever with us and is more than a century-long." In his European trip Mr. Bryan must have noted abundant evidences of the fact that this struggle began way back, long before the birth of the western republic. But does Mr. Bryan seriously propose to make an issue of this struggle, old as the human race itself, in the coming piesidential contest? Does he intend to ask the next national democratic con vention to incorporate this issue, in the language in which he has framed it, in the national platform? Political issues are not made up of glowing generalities. Mr. Bryan is nn eloquent gentleman. He has many ad mirers outside the 6,000,000 Americans who voted for him in two presidential contests. As a citizen and as a typical American he commands respect. But when it comes to outlining an "issue" for the democracy in the coming presi dential campaign he will have to be more specific. He will have to come down from the lofty heights of post prandial oratory to particulars. If he means that the great issue is the issue between the people and certain monopo lies that seek to control the agencies of production and exeh»r.gft he will have to say so in lucid and explicit, terms. The issue as vaguely defined by Mr. Bryan would be merely the issue of class against class—an issue that would not be seriously considered by the American people as a political issue in a presidential campaign. COMMENT AND OPINION. has been found in Texas. Thus destiny again intervenes to make Mr. Bryan's political prospects less pleas ing.—N. Y. World (Dem.). ttJ-Now that William J. Bryan is back in his native land, no democratic dinner will be democratic without his presence. —Detroit Free Press (Dem.). Parker is emphatic in his expressed belief that the seat of democ racy is in the west. And Mr. Bryan supplements it by thinking that he, knows the seat of the presidential candi date is also somewhere in that baili wick—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Beveridge never speaks without saying something worth re membering. In his speech at the recent love feast he said: "Unless a political party serves the whole people it has no reason for success or even for existence. Our pride as republicans is that our party has done well for the nation; our guaranty of victory Is the certainty that we will continue to do well for the na tion. Never forget that the surest way to win is to deserve to win." That be longs to the class of utterances that will do to paste in one's hat.—lndianapolis Journal. news of Mr. Roosevelt's popu larity in Nebraska will hardly prove a shock to Mr. Bryan. That state has noi recently given him much chance to pose as a favorite son.—Washington Star. public debt increased §11,618,- 530 in December, and the cash in the treasury now amounts to 112 1,405,G121,982 against which there are demand liabili ties of $1,02G,247,080, leaving an actual cash balance on hand of $379,374,895, The treasury cash increased $10,i;;7,4G5 during December. Uncle Sam, thanks j to republican financiering, begins the ! new year in first-class shape.-—Troj j Times. „ . . i CAPITAL AND LABOJR Senator Hanna Says Their Rela tion Js I'aranioiint Issue. Ho Would Hiii'c I iiiim Ijiihor Aniprl< canlzcd ami J»la."> last year, and 33 in Canada, compared with 27 a year ago. No lllvcr und liarhor Hill Thin Year, Washington, Jan. 23.—The house committee on rivers and harbors yes terday decided that there should be no river and harbor appropriation bill at the present session of con gress, although a few surveys might be authorized. Foraker Will Not Fight. Washington, Jan. 23.—A conference which was pregnant with significance was held at the White Mouse Friday between the president and Senator Foraker. The senator returned Thursday from a sojourn of several days in Ohio. While in the state he conferred with many of his friends regarding the political situation. It was to inform the president of the result of his observations that he called mi him. It seems improbable at this time that Foraker will pre cipitate a contest in Ohio over the selection of delegates to the Chicago convention. PURE FOOD BILL. 11 Pa«*c« tlio lloufte of Representa tive* Standard* Fixed for Purity and of I'oud* and Ilriis*. Washington, Jan. 21.—Thr house passed tin- Hepburn pure food bill yesterday on a rising- vote, 201 to 08, its opponents being unable to secure a roll call on the bill. The amend ment inserting 1 the word "willful" wi i h reference to persons who sell adulterated or mis>brandcd goods, and which would have compelled the gov ernment to prove intent to violate the law 'by the venders, was stricken out on a yea and nay vote. Several attempts were made to amend the bill, but no material changes were made. i'he bill fixes the standards of foods and drugs as to their purity, strength and character and defines what shall be considered adulterations or mis branding of foods and drugs. It alsa prohibits interstate commerce, im portation and exportation of such misbranded or adulterated articles, It, is proposed to enlarge the scope of the bureau of chemistry to include the bureau of foods and impose upon it the duty of performing all chemical work for the other executive depart ments. This bureau will be charged with the duty of inspecting food and drug products which belong to inter state or foreign commerce. The sec retary of agriculture is given author ity to employ such chemists, inspec tor!?, clerks and laborers as may be necessary for the enforcement of the ■ct. One section of the bill provides penalties for the introduction of adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs and another section requires the secretary of agriculture to pre scribe rules and regulations to gov ern the director of the bureau of chemistry and foods iu examinations of articles required to be inspected under t'he law. Violations of the law shall be re ported by the secretary of agricul ture to the proper district attorney of the I nited States, who is to cause proceedings to begin without delay. TCorirnn Would Annex Panama. Washington, Jan. St.—Senator Mor gan yesterday introduced a bill pro viding for the annexation of Panama to the United States, "the rights and property of l'anama resting in the United tSates without reserve." The bill appropriates $10,000,000 as com pensation to Panama for its cession; places $15,000,000 at the disposal of the president for the compensation of Colombia, and appropriates sto,- 000,000 for the purchase of the prop erty of the Panama Canal Co. in Co lombia, including the Panama canal. ClmrifM Asalnut Justice Hooker. Albany, N. V., Jan. 21. —Charges of the Bar association of Jamestown against State Supreme Court Justice \Y. 15. Hooker, former representative in congress, were brought before the State liar association yesterday. The charges quote the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General liris tOW relative to alleged irregularities in the postoflices at Dunkirk and Fre donia, with reference to rentals of postoftice buildings, and set forth that M. 11. Taylor, named in Bris tovv's report, was appointed postmas ter at Dunkirk upon Hooker's recom mendation and that Hooker was and is one of I lie owners of the postoftice building in Dunkirk, alleged to have been the subject of excessive rental. Plan to Rim at 'lVrrllie Speed. Schenectady, IS*. Y., Jan. 21.—Plans to equal and possibly beat the speed of 120 niilesuin hour made at Prossen, Germany, some time ago, were made Wednesday at a conference between officials and experts representing the .New York Central railroad and the General Electric Co. The tests nre to be made on the tracks between this city and Hoffman*. If present plans hold, the Central thus will be enabled to run trains through New \ ork City and on its snrburban lines at an unparallelled rate of speed. Trolley Car Kan Away. Pittsburg. Jan. 31.—0f the 30 pas sengers aboard a trolley car which ran away in Uankin last night, five were seriously hurt and ten others badly bruised and shocked. The car while descending the sleep grade on Hawkins avenue got beyond control, by reason of icy tracks. After run ning about 30 yards it jumped the curve and plunged over a 20-foot em bankment, turned completely over and lodged in a snow bank just on the brink of a hill. Is Accused of Embezzling: S!£G.SOO. Xew York, Jan. 21.—Peter Forester, former grand commander of the Knights Templar of this state, who has been missing since last Septem ber, was charged with r.ot having ac counted for a trust fund of $20,500 in a warrant the existence of which came out yesterday at a hearing in the matter of the estate of Lncinda Daugherty, who died September 1, INSfI. The warrant for Forester was obtained by one of the heirs. A Triple Tragedy. New York* Jan. 31.—Mrs. Louise Elion. 2-S years old. of East Sixty fourth street, was found mortally in jured by a pistol shot wound at her home Wednesday. Her two children, Annie, S years, and Kosie, 7 years, were found dead, having been killed by pistol shot wounds. The woman waf alive when found, but died short ly afterwards, it is believed that she shot her children aud then com mitted suicide. Bryan'* Answer. New Haven, Conn., .Fan. 21.—The answer of William .1. Bryan to the ap peal from the probate court brought by heirs of the late Philo S. Hennett, was filed yesterday in the superior court. In the answer .Mr. Bryan fig ures both as executor of the Bennett will and as trustee under the terms of the will. In effect the answer de clares that the sealed letter referred to in the will makes it the duty of the executor to pay $50,000 to .Mrs. Bennett to be turned over to William J. Bryan and that Section 12 of the will, mentioning the scaled letter, is valid. CURRENT TOPICS. Alcohol from sawdust is a commer cial success. There are 111,000 Mormons in the United States. Manitoba is pre-eminently the pro vince of wheat. England annually imports $30,000- COO worth of eggs. American hand and sulky plows are "very much admired by farmers in the Orange river colony and Natal. Coffee is a very strong antiseptic. There are many diseases the mi crobes of which are destroyed by it The liesh of reindeer may now be bought at any time in the Berlin markets. It Is brought frozen from Finland and Lapland. I'or the first time in Somaliland, camels are now being used as draft animals, and the results are stated to be highly satisfactory. The hay crop, excepting corn alone?, is the greatest in value, the gross re alization during last year on 61,305,- 040 tons being $556,376,880. Russia, Roumania and Servia are at the top of the list in illiteracy, 80 per cent, of the population in the*e coun tries being unable to read ;jr write. The boring of the Simplon tunnel has again been interrupted on the Swiss side by the tapping of hidden springs which have flooded the works. Round-trip tickets from Ixindon or Paris to Peking, China, by rail and re turn by ship, with stopover privilege at any port, are now on sale for $204. Farmers in Northern Sweden are importing domesticated yaks from the Himalayas, these animals standing the severe Scandinavian climate admir ably. For protesting against the reading from the pulpit of the conscription law imposed by the Russians, five per sons have been fined SSO each in Fin land. Polar birds have been seen in parts of South Tyrol (Austria), and it is as sumed that the exceptional severity of the Arctic winter has driven them south. The French chamber of deputies re* centlv voted to expend the sum of $60,- 000,000 for the improvement of canals, new water works and the extension of seaports. With a capital of SIOO,OOO, a Franco- German company has been formed to obtain alcohol from peat, moss anil lichens. The works will be erected in Denmark. Moved by the eloquence of a man •who was charged at St. Petersburg with robbery, the jury not only ac quitted him, but presented him with a sum of money. Now that cotton presses reduce the size of a bale until it weighs 45 pounds to the square foot, one ship will carry the product of 40,000 acres of average cotton land. All the jewelry and valuable cos tumes of the late Queen Draga have heen taken over the frontier by the representatives of her heirs and sent to her sisters at Munich. John Hazeltlne, known throughout Central New York as a philanthropist, has announced plans to take a colony of one thousand Syracuse people to Montana for the purpose of establish ing a '.own. Business Cards. B. W. aREEN^ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Emporium. Pa. A buslnessrelatingto estate.collections.real •states. Orphan's Con rt and generallaw busines*. will receive prompt attention. 42-ly. J. C. JOHNSON. J. p. MCNARNEV IOHNBON & MoNARNEY. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW* EMPORIUM, PA. Will give prompt attention to all business en 1 * rusted to them. 16-ly. * MICHAELBRENNAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Collections promptly attended to. Real estate •lid pension claim agent, 85-ly. Emporium. Pa. THOMAS WADDINGTON, Emporium, Pa., CONTRACTOR FOR MASONRY AND STONE-CUTTING. All orderß in my lino promptly executed. All I Inds of building and cut-stone, si:pp' ed at low prices. Agent for marble or granite monuments. Lettering neatly done. AMERICAN HOUSE —— East Emporium, Pa.!" JOHN L. JOHNSON, Prop'r. Having resumed proprietorship of this old and well established House I invite the patronage of the public. House newly furnished and thor oughly renovated. 481y F. n. LEFT. ITTORNEY-AT-LAW and INSURANCE AG'T. EMPORIUM, PA To LAND OWNERS AND OTHERS IN CAMERON ANO ADJOXNINO COUNTIES. I have numerous calls for hemlock and hard* wood timber lands,also stumpnge&c., anripartieo desiring either to buy or sell will do well to call on me. p. JJ, LEET. CITY HOTEL, WM. McGEE, PROPRIETOR Emporium, Pa. Having again taken possession of this old and popular house 1 solicit a share of thepublicpat ronage. The house is newly furnisheriand is on* of the best appointed hotels in Cameron county, 80-1 y. THE NOVELTY RESTAURANT, (Opposite Post Office,) Emporium, Pa. WILLIAM MCDONALD, Proprietor. I take pleasure in informing the public that % have purchased the old ana popular Novelty Restaurant, located on Fourth street. It will be my endeavor to serve the public in a mannes that shall meet with their approbation. Give in« a call. Meals and luncheon served at all houra. n027-l>r Wm. McDONALD. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, THOS, J. LYSETT, PROPRIETOR Near Buffalo Depot, Emporium, Pa. This new and commodious hotel is now opened forthe accommodation of the public. Newiu&l Itsappointments, every attention willbepai' to the guests patronizing this hotel. 27-17 ly MAY GOULD, TEACHER OP PIANO, HARMONY AND THEORY, Also dealer in all the Popular abeet M uuc, Emporium, Pa. Scholars taught either at my home on Sixth street or at the homes of the pupils. Out oftowu scholars wilt be given dates at my rooms in this place. P. C. RIECK, D. D. 8„ DENTIST.; Office over Taijgart's Drug Store, Emporium, Pa. Gas and other local anaesthetics ad» ministered for the painless extraction teeth. < SPEClALTY:—Preservation of natural teeth, Isr iludiug Crown and bridge Work.